Spoke-socket



(No Model.)

J. B. RIGHTER.

SPOKE SOCKET.

wvwwooeo I filttommw UNITE STATES JAMES B. RIGI-ITER, OF REEDSBURG,WVISUONSIN.

SPOKE-SOCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 471,024, dated March15, 1892.

Application filed November 14, 1891. Serial No. 411,890- No model To allwhom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JAMES B. RIGHTER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Reedsburg, in the county of Sank and State of WVisconsin,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Spoke-Sockets; andI do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same. My invention hasrelation to improvements in spoke-sockets; and its novelty will be fullyunderstood from the following description and claims, when taken inconjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is adetail elevation, partly in section, of a portion of wheel-folly and aspoke, illustrating my improved socket in position. Fig. 2 is anelevation of the socket, removed. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the socket,taken at right angles to that shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a Verticaldiametrical section of the socket, taken in the plane indicated by theline y y on Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a transverse section, and Fig. 6 is aperspective view of a modification designed more especially for apurpose hereinafter described.

Referring by letter to the said drawings, and more particularly to Figs.1 to 5 thereof, A indicates my improved socket, which is preferably of ageneral cylindrical form, as illustrated, and is provided at one endwith a cap-plate B and at its other end with an annulus O, which areconnected by an integral diametrical wall D, which is preferably of aproportional length, substantially as shown. The portion of the loweredge of the diametrical wall D, which preferably extends down within theupper edge of the annulus C, is beveled and notched, as illustrated, fora purpose presently to be described.

Preferably formed integral with the annulus C, and rising from the upperedge thereof at diametrically-opposite points and upon opposite sides ofthe diametrical wall D, are brads M, which preferably extend to within ashort distance of the inner or under side of the'cap-plate B, and aredesigned in practice to be pressed laterally into the wood of the fellyby the split branches of the spoke end, which is split by the lowerbeveled edge of the diametrical Wall B when it is driven into thesocket. I

Whenthe split branches of the spoke end press the brads M laterally intothe wood to lock the socket in the felly, it will be readily seen thatsaid branches will also take laterally, whereby it will be perceivedthat the spoke will be locked in the socket.

In the practice of my invention the socket is driven into the folly of awheel so that the outer or upper side of the cap-plate B will rest flushwith the periphery of the felly, after which the end of the spoke isdriven into the annulus C and the socket in the manner before described.

In Fig. 6 of the drawings I have illustrated a slightly-modified form ofmy invention, which, while capable of use for looking a spoke in thefolly of a wheel, is designed more especially for locking the rungs of achair in the legs thereof. In this construction the socket A comprisesthe annulus the diametrical wall D, and the brads M, which are similarin construction, and are designed for the same purpose as thecorresponding parts in the invention proper.

The cap-plate B (disclosed in the construction illustrated in Figs. 1 tois dispensed with in the construction shown in Fig. 6, as in practicethis latter construction is not driven entirely through a chair-leg, butis driven into the same, so that the outer edge of the annulus G willrestflush with the surface of the leg.

Although I have specifically described the construction and relativearrangement of the several parts of my improved socket, yet I do notdesire to be confined to the same, as

such changes or modifications may be made as fairly fall within thescope of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, whatI claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, 1s-

1. The improved socket, substantially as and for the purpose described,comprising the annulus, the diametrical wall having its lower edgebeveled, and the brads rising from the edge of the annuluson oppositesides of the diametrical wall, substantially as and for the purpose setforth.

2. The combination, with the felly of a Wheel and a spoke thereof, ofthe socket seated in the folly and comprising the annu' lus, thediametrical Wall having its lower 5 edge beveled, and the brads risingfrom the edge of the annulus on opposite sides of the diametrical wall,substantially as and for the purpose described.

7 3. The improved socket, substantially as IO and for the purposedescribed, comprising the cap-plate, the annulus, the dialnetrical Wallconnecting the cap-plate and the annulus and having its lower edgebeveled, and the brads rising from the edge of the annulus on oppositesides of the diametrical wall, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JAMES B. RIGIITER. Witnesses:

G. STEVENS, J. WEAVER.

